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Terms unknown as YouTube, composer reach deal on copyright lawsuit
Jun 16, 2023SAN FRANCISCO, California: In a court filing this week, YouTube and Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider agreed to dismiss the San Francisco federal lawsuit accusing the video-sharing site of enabling the piracy of her works.
The trial of the copyright infringement case was set to begin this week when YouTube and Schneider agreed to end the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
In 2020, Schneider sued YouTube on behalf of a proposed class of small or “ordinary” copyright owners, who argued that the platform protects major players, such as music labels and movie studios, from copyright infringement, but allows pirated content from individual creators to attract users.
Major companies have access to YouTube’s advanced Content ID software to scan for and automatically block infringing content, but individual creators are left “out in the cold,” the lawsuit alleged.
YouTube denied the allegations and said it goes “above and beyond” to protect copyrights.
Last month, US District Judge James Donato refused to certify the lawsuit as a class action.
